Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM)

 

Workshop on ‘DISASTER PREVENTION AND ADAPTATION’

The purpose of the workshop is to solicit inputs on adaptation programmes to be proposed to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Malaysia. The proposed adaptation programmes will be part of the outcomes from the study on ‘Development of Adaptation Roadmap for Malaysia, 2020 and beyond’.

Date/Time: 25 March 2013 (Monday) / 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Venue: Equatorial Hotel Bangi


The objectives of the workshop are as follow:

  1. Share findings of research conducted as part of the above mentioned study;
  2. Strengthen the proposed adaptation programmes that enhance the resilience of Malaysia in a changing climate; and
  3. Identify appropriate implementing agencies and collaborators to mainstream national adaptation programmes.

Highlights:

  • Moderator
    Raja Datuk Zaharaton Raja Zainal Abidin
    National Fellow of Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute (SEADPRI-UKM)
  • Presentation
    Findings from the study ‘Development of Adaptation Roadmap for Malaysia, 2020 and Beyond’
    Prof. Dr. Joy Jacqueline Pereira
    Head Project Collaborator, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Institute (SEADPRI-UKM)
  • Commentator
    Prof. Dr. Pak-Sum Low
    UKM-YSD Chair in Climate Change

More info: See Tentative Programme (pdf)

Jointly organised by SEADPRI, Ministry of Natural Resource & Environment, National Security Council Malaysia, National Professors Council Malaysia, and Academy of Sciences Malaysia